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It's almost April! Counting down the days. I'm glad to have a place to come and whine during my pre-op diet! :teeth_smile: It starts April 10th.

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Blund u will do fine, just keep focused on why u r doing the diet that helps, so far I have been on my diet fo 5 days now and have lost 8.5 lbs, the first few days were really bad but as I see the scales go down it is much better...I did cheat a little last night but am back on track today and focused, i just keep thinking about how awesome things will be to be skinny again, cute clothes and not feeling bad about myself all the time...good luck...Cindy to be banded on 4/8:thumbup:

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I'm scheduled for my surgery on Wednesday April 9th. The longest year is finally coming to and end.... and life is beginning anew! Skinny thoughts run through my mind from the moment I wake up until my head hits the pillow (bet I dream about it too!) :thumbup:

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What I don't get, is why I've lost 9 lbs for no reason?!

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Good Morning Avengers!

I hope everyone is having a great day! I am starting day three of the lovely low carb liquid pre-op diet. I have surgery on Friday at 2:30 - I am getting excited! I can't wait to lose weight! I bought a DietMinder journal for food and fitness at Barnes and Noble yesterday. It's seems like it will be a great tool to keep me on track!

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Hi everybody!

I'm getting excited too! I start my liquid diet on Thursday.

ColoradoChick: How's your liquid diet going? Are you doing okay? Nervous?

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Any advice on what works better w/preparing drinks/meal prep?

Any tools that anyone has that would be a must have to help aide in the new life change?

Thank you,

Jennifer:thumbup:

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Hi everybody!

I'm getting excited too! I start my liquid diet on Thursday.

ColoradoChick: How's your liquid diet going? Are you doing okay? Nervous?

I am getting excited and nervous. I am doing ok with the liquids. This is day three and I am still fighting hunger. I havent cheated although yesterday I took a nap to get my mind off of the hunger! I went to the store and bought some different types of Soups that are relatively low in carbs so hopefully it will get better! I went walking for 30 minutes - half downhill and half uphill. I was winded but kept going! I can't wait to see where we all are this time next year!!

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ColoradoChick: Good for you! It will be fun to see how we all progress. I can hardly wait! I see the surgeon tomorrow and that will be the last visit until surgery. WOO HOO! You know, Jello can help with the chewing and the feeling of having something solid. I am worried about this part. Not that anyone ever died from their preop diet, but I work 12 hour shifts and am worried about being able to sustain myself that long without any real food! I'm sure it will be fine though. Maybe all those hours will be a distraction! LOL

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I am scheduled for April 9th. I am excited and anxious. My goal over the next ten days of pre-op diet is to be nice to my family despite my lack of caffeine and impending hunger. Go April!!!

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Hey letschat, I too am scheduled to be banded on the 14th. If you want to chat let me know. I will give you my email address. It will be nice to chat with someone that has the same date as me.

Good Luck everyone Keep up the good work.

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Hi everyone ,I'm scheduled for the 17th and I'm on low carb now and then 2 days liquid b4 surgery.Started low carb thurs and i have bad headaches.Guess I'm not use to it yet,and I feel hungery and all I want is like chips and stuff like that.I guess the carb addition really had a hold on me.I'm gonna fight that old devil.lol .Keep strong April Advengers!!!!

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Hi all April Avengers!!! I have 4 days until the big day. I am soo excited. I am home this week on Spring Break. I have to keep busy this week so I won't get nervous. So far, I am not nervous at all just excited. The liquid diet is going well. I have been on it for a little over a week. I can tell my tummy is shrinking because it is hard to get all the liquids in now. Good luck to everyone!

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Good Morning Fellow Avengers! I face the day today with "Breakfast of Champions" - banana vanilla Protein Drink served ice cold! This magical drink will help me start the day in a positive way in order to reach my goals! Go forth and conquer fellow Avengers! (It is fun to be a Super Hero!! LOL)

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Bethanycot lets chat . How are your nerves so far? The first day I got the news I was approved all I felt was excitement but then I felt nervous. I hope this is the answer to help me stop this love affair I have with food. I am excited but the UNKOWN still haunts me a little.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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